Planting Day

Living in a tropical environment has its benefits such as lots of rain, plenty of warm weather and great lightning shows, the best of all is the great weather during the ‘Dry Season’ or winter as it is more commonly known in all other parts of Australia.

Being a long weekend the garden has had a lot more attention than usual with weeding, pruning, composting and most exciting of all planting. While at the nursery on Friday the wife picked up a punnet of Snapdragons and a punnet of Seaside Daisy.

Seaside Daisy is pretty drought hardy once established and is a fantastic ground cover which only requires 3 to 4 plants per square meter to get great coverage. It produces the prettiest little daisy heads which are around 10mm in diameter.

I’ve never grown Snapdragons before, but my wife assures me that they are quite pretty and will grow quickly and to around 80cm in height.

The seed bin got rummaged through again and following were direct seeded into growing location Cornflowers, Cosmos, Gypsophila, Nasturtium, Spring Onion and Kohl Rabi.

On the pruning front the blue salvias got a big hair cut, all of the old wood was removed to allow the young growth coming from around the ground to get some sunlight.

All the prunings and weeds will be thrown into the compost tumbler for a bit of spinning action. Speaking of compost, all of the seeds and seedlings were planted with a good dose of the compost from the compost tumbler.